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Pointless Archers poll. Satisfy my curiosity...

58 replies

commonorgarden · 23/06/2014 21:03

... If you are a fan, would you say your love is a.) inherited from always having it on as a child, b.) found as an adult or c.) none of the above.

I'm certainly an a.

OP posts:
weebarra · 09/07/2014 06:33

I remember the theme tune so it must have been on when I was younger. I started listening to it when I had the DCs though.

PseudoBadger · 09/07/2014 06:45

A and B. Mocked it as a child, rediscovered as an adult.

MuttonCadet · 09/07/2014 06:48

a here too, used to laugh at my parents, now have to catch the omnibus if I miss it in the week.

Davros · 09/07/2014 07:42

A

MelanieCheeks · 09/07/2014 07:45

B, my parents weren't really Radio 4 listeners.

guggenheim · 09/07/2014 07:52

b but I'm a bookworm so finding the Archers meant I could do stuff while listening. Then get back to reading.

Lovage · 18/07/2014 21:46

A) Like other people, I really got into it as an adult when someone (can't remember who now) was pregnant as the same time as me - would have been about 10 years ago now. I listen intermittently, but enough to broadly keep up with what's happening

TeenAndTween · 24/07/2014 21:23

A. I am a few months younger than my Archer's namesake.
My DM claims I was not named after the character, but I'm not so sure.

(I am bringing up DD2 to enjoy it now)

HumphreyCobbler · 24/07/2014 21:25

B. I didn't know radio 4 existed until I went to university. Have listened to it daily since.

PatrickMcGinty · 25/07/2014 09:27

Definitely an A, but finding it hard going ATM, some of it is so implausible.

Pinkrose1 · 29/07/2014 20:37

A. Rediscovered as an adult, forgotten, rediscovered and on and on!

Eastpoint · 01/08/2014 10:00

A - have listened all my life. Did Listen With Mother follow the lunchtime repeat in the early 70s?

Pipbin · 10/08/2014 10:27

A.
It now forms a pivotal point in my day.
All meals take 45 minutes to cook. I start cooking at 6.30 to listen to the comedy and finish at 7.15.

The funny thing is that I listened passively for years at home, and I've listened now for about 15 years since and I still don't remember characters names or how they are related.

CuttedUpPear · 10/08/2014 10:56

B

My meals start to be cooked at 6.30 in time with the funny programme then the Dcs are summoned at 7 and we eat together in silence whilst listening to TA with the occasional bemused comment Smile

Eastpoint · 11/08/2014 09:35

DH leaves the kitchen so I can listen to the 6.30 show & then the Archers. My goal is to eat as it ends so there are no interruptions.

Theas18 · 17/08/2014 23:53

A. However I have odd fragments of memories if listening at breakfast with dad ( early 1970s). Did I imagine that and it was dinner time, or did they change it?

Absolutely a cook during the 6.30 prog, eat whilst listening household ( excerpt lately when lucky to leave work to drive home during TA :( )

Radio 4 is perfect listening to grow up to.... Except the odd foray into bumsex or similar in the school holidays!

May I recommend radio 4 extra for Tweens/ teens. They griw up with a wicked sense of humour and knowledge of the classics "mum... We've got to read Tess of the durbeviles but I already heard it on the radio"!

StandsOnGoldenSands · 17/08/2014 23:58

A. It's one of the things I most associate with my mother. It's used as a test of early middle age in my family, my sisters are just getting into it now.
Knitting is next on the list btw.

My first storyline as a voluntary adult listener was Roooooth and her illicit roll in the hay.

chocoluvva · 18/08/2014 00:00

B

RaisinGirls · 29/08/2014 14:19

I'm a B. Discovered it when in Uni and listened sporadically but then became aregular omnibus listener about 14 years ago.

toldmywrath · 30/08/2014 12:37

I'ma B. I have huge regrets (yes really) that I didn't pick up on this wonderful programme until about 2003?- anyway when Rooth was thinking of legging it with Sam the cowman. I caught it by accident on the Sunday morning omnibus & I was hooked very quickly.

CinderToffee · 30/08/2014 20:11

B. We didn't really listen to radio 4 at all when I was growing up - DH introduced me to the The Archers, and all the other many delights of R4, when we met at university. I listened to tons of R4 when I was a student and supposed to be trying to write essays. The funny thing is, my mum now listens to The Archers as well!

Floppityflop · 30/08/2014 20:17

A definitely. I also used to get my mum to tape the omnibus and send me the tapes when I was on my year abroad (sandwich year) aged 19. They took six weeks to arrive and I had to pay about ten quid customs duty for four tapes.

LemonDough · 30/08/2014 20:28

A. Although I wasn't ever as hooked as I am now since in the last couple years I can read the MN Archers threads to keep up to speed if I miss episodes & don't have time to listen again.

Interestingly (to me if no-one else), one of my earliest memories is getting up from my daytime nap and hearing the Archers theme tune whilst sitting on my mother's hip and that same thing happened many times with both my children too so it's being passed down the generations Grin

Birdiegirl · 30/08/2014 20:30

B

I'm from Ireland so had never heard of Radio 4 until I moved to the UK in 2006. I asked a colleague was there alternative to the shite on radio 1. When I told DH he said 'oh God I'll bet you'll be listening to the Archers next'. And sure enough I was, been hooked ever since. DH is also a fan of it now too. He listens on the way home from work in the car, and if there's a particularly juicy storyline (Elizabeth and Roy) he rings me at 7.15 to discuss it! And I'm not even 40 yet, it's a slippery slope Confused

Chottie · 30/08/2014 20:31

Another A here :)

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